I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Hey! Fuck ICE and all the racist fucked up garbage that's going on rn! I just don't want to add to tbe clutter by vitue signaling when other people have already said better. (Though I have a thread I might want to pull next week.)

This is so fucking scary.

Sweet Pablo✨️ Pet portrait commission. I worked from a number of photos for this one, but I tried specifically to get the look in his eyes that he got when he looked at his caretaker vs. another friend. It's always interesting for me to see how pets choose people, and how they express that choice.

Patrick the bunny! Pet portrait commission. I had so much fun finding ways to bring out this rabbit's beatiful coat.

My heart lies in broken pieces scattered along the way. I scatter crafts with my heart across the entire continental US. Packing up to move on to my next gig, crocheting a hat for a level head and mindless travel craft. Wish me luck.✨️

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

If you want to confuse everyone: make sure your motivations have to do with everything else besides money. No one will be able to guess why you're doing anything. It's glorious. Instant mystique.

Got invited to a random NYE party, and I guess charmed the host so much they gave me this homespun merino yarn in exchange for the pattern of a shawl I was wearing. 🥺 Successful night out!

I wrote a New Year's blog with a bit of an art dump at the end. It's embarassing to take myself this seriously, but it's doing me good to try. Hope to keep trying in the new year. www.twelfthhouse.art/blog/new-year

I have been in pet portrait land for the past few weeks when not working Christmas retail. It has been lovely, but not a lot to show yet. Here's a sketch I'm excited to paint.

My friend I'm living with gets MASSIVELY ILL from gluten, so we've been playing with substitutes for baked goods this season. This King Arthur flour works really well for cookies and pancakes thus far!

"Only the cringe are free." Sketchbook page from 2 years ago setting my mood for the new year, I think.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Happy cat mini painting.✨️ Thanking my friend for letting me paint in his garage by filling his house with many tiny paintings (and bigger ones next week hopefully!) I got a pet portrait commission as well, so enough to keep me busy for the next few weeks.

My friend is letting me paint in his basement, so I have entrenched and am busy experimenting! I have a friend asking for a pet portrait and I've got a few other exciting things.

yeah sex is cool, but have you ever managed to figure out a drawing problem at 4am and reconvinced yourself you might be a somewhat decent artist after all?!

I like to think I give people a good time for their money ('bout to get back from break to sell artisanal coffee to fun nerds), but I also wouldn't call myself successful in a traditional American sense.

I posted a pancake recipe a few months back, and I'm sorry but it was VASTLY INFERIOR to this one. The other one got too liquidy and needed some fluff, these ones are perfect and fluffy every time. Best I've made. All the best recipes are handwritten and passed among friends on scrap paper.

My musical theater obsession is cute when I'm singing Sound of Music in the kitchen, but then I stay in bed past my partner so I don't annoy him while I listen to the second half Assassins (I stopped on the Lee Harvey Oswald song yesterday, I was so curious...) and it seems less cute somehow.

Morning practice. Realizing that obsessively drawing circles and trying to perfect them as a kid paid off. I've always struggled with the traditional advice with drawing heads of attaching a face and jaw to the front of a circle, so I think the next few days I want to work with that.

Ripped my most easily wearable pants on a hike with friends, and then spent the next few weeks making this unhinged patch. Was mostly curious if I could make somewhat realish sketches witg string. Delighted with the result.

As ICE continues to terrorize our communities, kidnapping our neighbors, 9 cyclists came together this morning at 6am to buyout 5 vendors and donate the food to a local shelter. They went home safe, hungry ppl were fed, this is #BikeChi ✊🏽

I just love all these mice so much, idk I can't stop drawing them. Blessings on all small things.

Working up my portraiture. Having a lot of fun with color. Never thought I'd be a colored pencil person, but I'm obsessed now and can't stop. Pose reference @adorkastock.com .

Some sweet simple things I made this week.

I haven't drawn a lot of snakes, but it's breaking my symmetry brain in such a good way. Mammals have a rigid structure so you can guess where the opposite limb is even if you can't see it. There's a reason for how a snake's body lies, but it can be so much more fluid. Love this challenge!

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Did a simple little cage on this guy for a patron to make it wearable again.

I wrote a blog about the themes in Hadestown, and a little about Charlie Kirk. www.twelfthhouse.art/blog/show-th...

I have been trying to get by without a spell-checker or suggested words for six months (a year? I forget at this point). The most shocking development thus far is that learning my most common spelling mistakes has changed the way I pronounce vowels daily.

Sahar, who has once again had her account deleted is now being pressured extremely aggressively to pay rent for the lot where her family has set up their tent. Can you imagine being threatened with homelessness again in the midst of the increasing genocide? She needs $600 please do what you can

Oh me? I keep a sketch page where I doodle my characters kissing when I get overwhelmed

Yeesh, I need to get back to art so I can cultivate some magic rather than share my sad takes. Making pretty things Monday, I promise.

I have consumed more horrible images in the past three years than I ever have, and honestly, it's made me a worse person. Angrier, more anxious, on edge. I sometimes forget how to feel joy when good things happen. I'm aware, luckily, and stop when I've seen too much, but it leaves marks.

In 2007 when I was 19 and starting to date dudes on college, making an obvious 4 Chan joke was a hard pass red flag for me. I have never loved my past self harder than today.

there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.

I am trying to learn French so I spell borrowed french words easier. Spending some time in Louisiana changed me. I feel compelled to learn and ashamed that I don't know French for some reason.

Hematite cabochon and a hematite phantom quartz on the bottom. I love combining different forms of the same rock. Learning about stones in depth from working at rock shops has done some fun things to my creative process.

Just reminded of the Oglaf strip with the crow lawyer. (One of the few safe for work strips, but the rest of the comics are very smutty.)

After today, I will have lived more days than Van Gogh did.

I feel like a lot of our social problems could be solved if we just make sure every kid sees the original Fraggle Rock at least a bit. Maybe even just episode 2.

Please help my friend Kazem and his family, they receive so few donations and they really need help right now. chuffed.org/project/1307...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

🚨 ALERT🚨 DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints. What does this mean 👉🏽

gofund.me/0d213f25 I'm helping to raise money for my friend @ensemblepieces.bsky.social after their dad died! They make all their own costumes (something I admire a lot!) and bring smiles to so many. Help a clown out in their time of need!

Whenever people told me growing up i was so talented i just wanted to be like "ITS NOT TALENT, IM JUST WEIRD AND DISCOVERED AN OBSCURE SOCIAL EXPLOIT THAT FEEDS ME ATTENTION IN EXCHANGE FOR SOLITARY TOIL"